Sally 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻

Retired medical librarian in AZ.

[Sally 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻 @meow111]

@SarahLongwell25 Many of us were struggling with the Platner issue right along with you. No one at the Bulwark deserves the attacks you are receiving. Thank you for what you do!

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Ironic since Trump is the American leader right now most ambitiously pushing the government to own more and more of the means of production, just as Marx recommended.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Folks keep writing about the socialist aspirations of some in the Democratic Party but ignore the socialist acts of the Trump administration. Having the state own companies is what the Chinese Communist Party does and the Soviets used to do.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The U.S. government just handed sacred Apache land to a copper mine.

When they're done, the ancient oaks where generations have prayed and come of age will be gone - replaced by a crater two miles wide.

Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, known as Oak Flat, sits in Arizona's Tonto National Forest outside Superior. Its 2,422 acres of old-growth oaks, springs, and sacred sites have held San Carlos Apache prayers and coming-of-age ceremonies since time immemorial.

The endangered Arizona hedgehog cactus grows here. An endangered ocelot was struck and killed on a nearby highway - a reminder of what else calls this place home.

President Eisenhower protected this land from mining in 1955. That lasted 60 years, until the late Sen. John McCain slipped a last-minute provision into a must-pass defense bill in 2014, authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper.

Below Oak Flat, the Sonoran Desert rises to meet you in thousands of saguaro cacti lining the drive up from Phoenix. Environmentalists warn that block-cave mining at this scale threatens the fragile water systems that sustain this entire ecosystem.

Apache Stronghold fought it in court for over a decade.

They took it all the way to the Supreme Court. The Court declined to hear it - no explanation, no ruling on the merits, just a closed door. Even Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of the Court's most conservative voices, wrote a dissent calling it a grievous mistake. This past March, the transfer was finalized anyway.

The crater the mine leaves behind will be two miles wide and 1,100 feet deep. Permanent.

The American people will receive zero in royalties.

That's not an oversight - it's the 1872 Mining Law, a statute signed by Ulysses S. Grant that lets mining companies extract minerals from public land and pay nothing. It hasn't been updated in over 150 years. 150 years — can you believe it?

Twenty-one of Arizona's 22 federally recognized tribes oppose this. Seventy-one percent of Americans support protecting Oak Flat.

"We will never stop fighting," said Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold. "This is a struggle for the soul of our people."

What kind of country lets a 150-year-old law give away sacred land and call it legal?

#DemsUnited

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Finally. The administration releases Stephen Miller’s birth records.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Republicans said they wouldn't vote for ICE funding until Trump dropped his $1.8 BILLION slush fund. Then they caved (or didn't mean it in the first place). And now the slush fund is back on track.
https://t.co/ezTa2gnall

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

To the Republican majority of the Supreme Court:

You have shown yourself willing to IGNORE precedent, even while the ink was still drying on YOUR decision insisting YOUR unprecedented intervention in an election didn’t affect that precedent.

You’ve blessed willful DEFIANCE of a valid injunction by a lower court — that YOU upheld on appeal — irreparably undermining the rule of law.

And you DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER engaging with the facts found by the lower court — IGNORING the applicable standard of review.

And YOU did it all, seemingly, to advance a partisan agenda to cement YOUR ideological goals.  

But that was BEFORE votes were cast. 

Can we count on you not to torch the Constitution to advance those same interests and goals if the party in power repudiates the will of the voters? What assurance are you making to instill trust in your institution?

History is watching and will judge your actions.

[Sally 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻 @meow111]

@CaptMarkKelly @kennyjacobs Thank you, Senator, for your support!

[Kris Mayes @krismayes]

Just think about how much fraud in Arizona’s Medicaid system we could’ve prevented if you were paying attention as a republican legislator in 2021?? Billions of dollars were defrauded from Arizona under your leadership—before I got into office and was able to stop it.

[Jonathan Nez @NezForAZ]

Congress hasn’t heard a voice like mine.

We need to be focused on America right now. Rural communities and hard working families are struggling and Congress is only making it worse.

[Craig Harris @CraigHarrisNews]

BREAKING. ⁦Attorney General ⁦@krismayes⁩ announces she has sued the federal government to stop ICE facilities in Surprise. Check out developing story on ⁦@12News⁩.com and our story tonight on @12news.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Trump fell asleep again during a live televised meeting. If Joe Biden had done that, the media would have treated it like a national emergency and run wall-to-wall panic coverage for a week.

But when Trump does it, they look the other way because the clown show keeps their ratings up and their pockets full.

The hypocrisy is disgraceful. The media failed the country, and they know it.

[Matt Little @LittleCongress]

The U.S. Senate just voted to pollute one of Minnesota’s most beloved places: the Boundary Waters.
Let’s be clear why: more money for billionaires.

Twin Metals and its parent companies are mega-corporations owned by a billionaire family based in Chile. They have a long track record of pollution and environmental devastation, and despite their assurances that this mining is “safe,” decades of research show otherwise.

Twin Metals would bring fewer than 750 jobs to the region, with most of its operations being autonomous and remote, but it risks thousands of jobs in tourism and hospitality. The BWCA is the most visited wilderness in America, attracting almost 150,000 tourists and over $80 million in annual spending to the region.

This won’t bring long-term prosperity. It will cost us millions in healthcare and environmental cleanup.

Mining can be done right, only in the right places. This is the wrong type of mine, in the wrong place.

All watersheds are connected. What happens in one place harms another, and pollution near the BWCA will migrate into the BWCA and the surrounding watershed.

Republicans are in the pockets of big corporations that want to threaten our Minnesota heritage and one of the most pristine environments in the nation.
We must take back the U.S. House and overturn this reckless policy.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

I just conducted an unprompted, late night oversight visit at an ICE holding facility at the Mesa Gateway Airport with @RepGregStanton and @Rep_Grijalva. What we saw was shocking and sick.

Well over 240 detainees stacked like sardines in cells. People were sick and ICE was refusing medical care.

Here’s what happened.

[Rep. Greg Stanton @RepGregStanton]

Tonight, I conducted unannounced oversight at ICE’s Mesa Airport detention center with @RepYassAnsari and @Rep_Grijalva.

What we saw was horrifying — crowded cells at 2-3x capacity and busses more of detainees being loaded in. This is Trump’s mass deportation machine in action.

[Greg Olear @gregolear]

"We’re seeing levels of evil that I think haven’t been this visible in the United States in a long time. Not that we haven’t done evil things. It just hasn’t been this blatant and this egregious and this impossible to deny. And I think people are starting to see it now."

https://t.co/dQ5P9RMXBH

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

So tired of funding vacations for Kash Patel and Kristi Noem

[Sally 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻 @meow111]

@BuzzPatterson @MilesTaylorUSA Oh please

[Sally 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻 @meow111]

@RepEliCrane Liars

[Sally 🏳️‍🌈🌊🌻 @meow111]

@RepEliCrane You are all ok with millions of married women who changed their name not being able to vote? Interesting.